Word: realism
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Styles ranged from the rugged realism of painters like Kansas City's Fletcher Martin (TIME, Nov. 25, 1940) and Chicago's Francis Chapin to flat, geometric abstractions and surrealist fantasies. Top-notchers whose work had already drawn plaudits included Portland, Ore.'s Darrel Austin (who paints dank, dripping green landscapes swarming with wide-eyed animals and ghostlike humans), Boston's Jack Levine (whose red-faced politicians and gangsters appear to be seen through a glass of water...
...such as tin and rubber; 2) complete military cooperation with U.S. use of bases at strategic points; 3) a crackdown on Axis propagandists and German business firms "bootlegging" war materials through the Atlantic blockade. To get these, the U.S. has dollars, ships, markets and World War II's realism to bargain with in the smoke-filled committee rooms of the Itamaraty Palace...
...Diary ($3), which by breaking down Europe's momentous years into momentous days gave his record the breathlessness of headlines. Runner-up was Virginia Cowles's Looking for Trouble ($3). Author Cowles, not one of the great by-liners, wrote current history with some of the fresh realism of the little maid who from answering doorbells and making up the beds, sees everybody, finds out every thing, at last knows more about what is going on in the house than the masters themselves. Other books by correspond ents: The Men Around Churchill ($3) by René Kraus; That...
...gallery with 71 of his pictures. Many were painted with homemade colors, notably the "Curtis Browns" (shades of brown made from vegetables and magnolias by his assistant A. W. Curtis Jr.). Nearly all were deft, somewhat primly academic depictions of natural phenomena. Visitors, impressed by the simple realism and tidy workmanship of the pictures, found still more to admire in the adjoining collection of handicrafts (embroideries on burlap, ornaments made of chicken feathers, seed and colored peanut necklaces, woven textiles) which the almost incredibly versatile Carver had turned out between scientific experiment and painting...
...closely-analyzed passage on the philosophy of democracy, Perry, like Aristotle, advocates a mingling of extremes. Realism must be coupled with idealism, pure force with conviction; pride in a people's possibilities of improvement must be joined with humility in appraising its accomplishments; a nation must look out for itself by looking out for others as well...